Tales of Kenzera: ZAU dev’s next game is a psychological horror all about the entertainment industry’s dark secrets Dead serious <img loading=“lazy” src=“https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/dead-take.jpg?width=690&quality=85&format=jpg&dpr=3&auto=webp" onerror=“this.onerror=null;this.src=‘https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhe7F7TRXHtjiKvHb5vS7DmnxvpHiDyoYyYvm1nHB3Qp2_w3BnM6A2eq4v7FYxCC9bfZt3a9vIMtAYEKUiaDQbHMg-ViyGmRIj39MLp0bGFfgfYw1Dc9q_H-T0wiTm3l0Uq42dETrN9eC8aGJ9_IORZsxST1AcLR7np1koOfcc7tnHa4S8Mwz_xD9d0=s16000';" alt=“A person is sat looking at a glowing sign reminiscent of the Hollywood sign that says “Dead Take” in key art for the game Dead Take. - 1”> Image credit:Surgent Studios Earlier this year, Palworld developer Pocketpair announced their intent to get into games publishing using some of that Scrooge McDuck-size swimming pool of money they’ve acquired over the past year....

That “leaked” Shenmue 4 trailer has nothing to do with Ys Net, and they’re so mad about it they might take legal action They’re not forklifting around Earlier this week you may have seen what was framed as a leaked trailer for Shenmue 4. Admittedly, thanks to Dwitter compression and supposedly being a recording of a screen rather than direct capture, it looked convincing enough, as long as you don’t look too hard at it....

That Crazy Taxi reboot will apparently be a “triple-A” game Ya-ya-ya-ya-yAAA Image credit:Sega Sega’s upcoming reboot of ‘90s arcade classic Crazy Taxi will be a “triple-A” game, according to the head of one of the Japanese studios working on the driving game’s return. Crazy Taxi was among the slew of Sega games revealed to be making a comeback during a rapid-fire trailer shown at the Geoff Awards in December , alongside the likes of Streets of Rage, Golden Axe and Jet Set Radio ....

The 20 best online board games on PC Roll out Image credit:The Pokemon Company, Playdek, Handelabra Games, Konami, Nacon, Dire Wolf We weren’t allowed to meet up in person for a few years there, so everyone went a bit doolally for physical board games once doctors said we could cough directly into each other’s eyeballs. We’ve all calmed down a bit now, but our love for the board game hasn’t diminished....

The creators of pandemic sim Plague Inc are back with 4X city builder After Inc: Revival Start again in an undead UK Image credit:Ndemic Creations In Ndemic Creations’ mobile strategy sim Plague Inc, you nurture a disease and attempt to spread it across the world. Originally launched in 2012, the game saw a morbid upsurge in popularity during the early years of Covid, as millions of people sought to model the pandemic’s advance or just play out their anxieties....

The Game Awards 2024 liveblog From 12:30am GMT / 7:30pm ET Image credit:The Game Awards Tonight is The Game Awards 2024 , the first since Geoff Keighley killed E3 and consumed its heart in front of a group of screaming schoolchildren. Just saying, this had better be good, Geoff , especially after the 2023 show’s “embarrassing” shooing-off of developers whose acceptance speeches cut into that valuable trailer showcase time. Who will need to please wrap it up this time?...

The Maw: what’s new in PC games this week? Arco, Shapez 2, Sins Of A Solar Empire 2, The Crimson Diamond, more Image credit:Johann Theodor de Bry / Harry G. Friedman / Rock Paper Shotgun There are times when I think each week’s most intriguing new PC releases are being organised behind the scenes by a fiendishly plotting, Left 4 Dead -style “AI Director”. Mostly, the games approach in small groups distributed evenly among the weekdays - a steady assault....

The original Fallout is the perfect antidote to Fallout fever War did change, actually Image credit:Bethesda Softworks He made specific links between the original Fallout and the “robust and dynamic” quest and conversation design of New Vegas, which he feels have outlived some early player upset over the game’s similarity to Fallout 3 . “I think that’s what has lasted,” Sawyer told Jeremy. “The initial impact where people said the gameplay feels very close to Fallout 3 is totally fair....

The Plucky Squire will bust from the pages of the release date calendar on September 17th Like wot the Squire does in the game Image credit:Devolver Digital The Plucky Squire stars a 2D sword-slashing protagonist so plucky he busts out of his storybook confines and into the fully 3D world of a kid’s bedroom. You’ll then spend your time hopping between these various planes on a grand, cartoon adventure. It now has a release date: September 17th....

The PUBG developers’ new PVP shooter looks like top-down Rainbow Six Siege with a bit of Hotline Miami Fancy a different sort of trip down the PUB? Image credit:Krafton PUBG Corporation and Krafton have just gone and announced Project Arc , a top-down 5v5 shooter “inspired by PUBG “. To be honest with you, it looks more inspired by Rainbow Six Siege with what looks to be one team aiming to hack a crypt by breaking down defences, while the other reinforces structures to prevent them from doing that....

The reforging of the Rock Paper Shotgun Lock, stock and a trip to the archives Image credit:Samuel Johannes Pauli / FreeMyCollection.com It’s often claimed by liars and fools that our website’s title is a clever reference to the ancient Chinese game of shoushiling - or “rock paper scissors”, as it’s known overseas. The orthodox interpretation is that “Rock Paper Shotgun” is a folksy regional variation on this, with a “shotgun” instead of the “scissors”....

The seventh RPS Christmas Cracker 2025 Oh my Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun We eight scribes from RPS are, Bearing jokes, we wrote in the past, Christmas crackers, god we’re knackered, After twelve months of graft. But first, time to enjoy your lovely joke! Q: Where do zombies go on their summer holidays? A: Dying Light: The Beach Rock Paper Shotgun is better when you sign in Sign in and join us on our journey to discover strange and compelling PC games....

The Sunday Papers Image credit:RPS The Sunday Papers is our weekly roundup of great writing about (mostly) videogames from across the web. The weather is supposed to be pretty nice by Sunday afternoon, according to the forecast as I write this, which means that Sundays are for going to the park to read. I’m making my way through Tokyo These Days, a short manga series by Tekkonkinkreet and Ping Pong author Taiyō Matsumoto, about a manga editor who quits his job at a publisher after his magazine folds, but decides to enlist the creators he admires to launch something of his own....

The Sunday Papers Image credit:RPS The Sunday Papers is our weekly roundup of great writing about (mostly) videogames from across the web. Sundays are for realising that the smell you can smell is that smell. That smell which smells. And how does it smell? It smells smelly. You open the door, and there they are. Anchovies. All waiting to play Hollow Knight: Silksong . No. Stay back. They won’t. Into your cardboard box they file, clearly experts in filling tight spaces thanks to their past lives as tinned goods....

The Sunday Papers Image credit:RPS The Sunday Papers is our weekly roundup of great writing about (mostly) videogames from across the web. Sundays are for looking up the average costs of raising a child, then researching the startup investment required for a currywurst food truck, then wondering how your spouse would react to some kind of Powerpoint pitch deck. Maybe while serving them one of those little cardboard trays, with a sausage in it....

The Sunday Papers Image credit:RPS Sundays are for sleep. Nothing else. Just sleep. Before I sleep, then sleep a bit more, and maybe get up to read RPS’ new! mystery! column! later, but then immediately go back to sleep, here’s this week’s best writing about games (and game related things!) We all like to moan about the modern incarnations of Fallout not really getting it , although perhaps don’t spend enough time talking about what it actually was....

The team behind Blue Prince puts out a call to get one of the puzzle game’s devs a life-saving kidney Please help out! Image credit:Dogubomb Slightly serious one here folks! The studio behind Blue Prince , one of this year’s best received games, is asking for some help for one of their lead playtesters, Matthew “Iggy” Kowalski. As shared on Bluesky, Iggy has polycystic kidney disease, leaving him with only a few months to find a living kidney donor....

This map ancillary might be my favourite thing a Total War Warhammer 3 patch has ever added I don’t know where I’m going with this Image credit:Sega To be fair, there are several, far more substantial additions teased in Total War: Warhammer 3 design director Mitchell Heastie’s latest blog on the strategy game ’s upcoming Patch 5.3. There’s also some interesting insight regarding design decisions, and the systems CA are hoping to tweak in the future....

This teeny tiny townbuilder is the pint-sized Townscaper I’ve been waiting for Summerhouse hits Steam on March 8th Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Future Friends Games As much as I love looking at and admiring sandbox citybuilders like Townscaper , I am terrible at actually playing them . I get the same kind of blank canvas choice paralysis I do in games like Minecraft, or anything where there’s no real clear objective for what I’m meant to be building....

This week in PC games: Wuchang, Killing Floor 3, open world spirit biking and some eerie glyph puzzles What we’re feeding the Maw Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / 505 Games Sometimes our patron news deity the Maw opens beneath my feet like a toothy sinkhole, and sometimes it leaps up and slobbers all over my face like an exhilarated labradoodle after a weekend at the kennels. Down boy! Down, you ridiculous creature!...